Quotes About Self-examination

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'

As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

It's very hard to look at the man in the mirror. Because you can't hide anything.

I do know that it takes a lot to look in that mirror and fix yourself.

I try to avoid mirrors.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I am not a role model for anyone.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

I hope so. Except I'm afraid to look at myself. Literally. I can't even look at my own eyes in the mirror, not for long. I'm afraid I won't be there.

Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.

The secondary function of a bathroom mirror is to measure murmurs in mental mud.

omphaloskepsis

Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other. The stranger. With sympathy, clarity, and the risk of self-examination.

Never seek out your own face even when well, lest the reflection drink your soul.

Are you living the life God has designed for you, or are you living someone else's?

Privilege resists self-examination, but exclusion does not.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist

What do we know of ourselves except as through a prism, he wonders, the endless refractions of our mind turning back on itself like a dog chasing its own tail?

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.